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  1. davell
    First, we're not getting multiple top prospects for Dempster, under any circumstance. If you're asking whether I'd take a slightly better headliner if it's a hitter in a Dempster deal, yeah, I would. But, from everything we've heard, the Yanks don't think Dempster can pitch in the AL East anyway. I'd prefer to deal him to the Braves, with Sean Gilmartin being the main piece coming back. Or the Dodgers with Garrett Gould. Eovaldi, if Ned's stupid that day. It'd take Williams, Sanchez, or Austin to trump those guys. And they don't trump Eovaldi, in my mind anyway. My guess is the Yanks go get Liriano.
  2. davell
    As I just laid out, every single team that's after Dempster or Garza has good pitching prospects. Top 100 guys. Most of those teams have more than one of them. So again, unless the Yankees basically offer 3 top 100 type hitters, against 2 top 100 pitchers from everyone else, you take the pitching, because we have legit cases to be made that there's not a single pitcher inside our organizations top 10 prospects.
  3. davell
    Damn, Szczur 2-2, 2 walks, and 3 steals.
  4. davell
    Concepcion has given up two hits and a walk, no outs yet.
  5. davell
    Alcantara with a 3 run shot. WTF with McNutt? 2 outs, sandwiched around 6 hits, a walk and a HBP. 8 runs, 4 earned. I wonder if he's legitimately in our top 15 by seasons end?
  6. davell
    Szczur walked, stole second, stole third, and scored in his first plate appearance.
  7. davell
    I understand. But the Red Sox, Dodgers, Blue Jays, Rangers, Cardinals, Braves, Tigers, and Royals all have pitching. The Yankees, White Sox, and Orioles(for Garza anyway) do not. If one of those last 3 teams wants to overpay, fine. Otherwise, if the packages are close, we need to take the package with as much pitching as possible.
  8. davell
    No, on any Yankee package for Garza. I could rectify and say if they sent Sanchez, Williams, Austin, and Gumbs, then sure. Because it's a massive overpay. But realistically, if Garza is dealt, same with Dempster, we need pitching. Betances is walking a batter an inning, is 25, and looks like a bullpen arm at best. Banuelos had an MRI on his elbow, which evidently was clean, but hasn't pitched for a month and will miss another month too? No thank you. If they send one of the four position prospects for Dempster, fine, it's solid value. Otherwise, we can find what we want and need elsewhere.
  9. davell
    I'd agree with you if Theo/Freidman/etc had given him that type of contract. Those regimes have the scouts I trust to fly in the face of all other reports. Given that it's Ned Colletti's regime, I have my doubts that he didn't just overreact. Logan White, their scouting director, has as good of a reputation, as anyone on the scouting side. Granted, Wilken doesn't seem to have very much input on our Latin American operations, so I don't have a clue as to whether he was even in on this move or not. If so, I'd feel much better if I were a Dodger fan. If not, it's possibly just a mess.
  10. davell
    That should be a given. The point behind this debacle of a season was to build for the future. Money didn't enter into it. When trading anybody, it should be all about the players we get in return, salary relief be damned. I think it's been widely known for a while that we were looking to pay salary in order to receive a better prospect. It really hadn't occured to me that the Dodgers would actually balk at it. Maybe they're more likely to go after Wandy, or even Greinke, since Houston and Milwaukee probably want some salary relief.
  11. davell
    I know we operate secretely down there, so I'm hopeful we're in on far more than just that guy, who doesn't sound all that interesting to me. That said, if next year's class is really good, we should be in the driver's seat, as Texas, Toronto, Boston, New york, and even Pittsburgh and Kansas City will have far less money to play with than what we will.
  12. davell
    Knobler brought up a good point with the Dodgers, in regards to Dempster: We'd rather pay money in order to receive better prospects, while they'd rather take the contract and offer a lesser return. I'm starting to think Dempster winds up in Atlanta or maybe Toronto, if they stick around.
  13. davell
    KC had retweeted that from someone else, I kind of doubt they make it known hours before the draft what their plans are. I'm still hoping for a trade of some sort anyway.
  14. davell
    David, in a year where we weren't winning obviously, did the Reed Johnson signing make sense when we could have played Sappelt? No, admittedly not. And I hate to bring the 'veteran" crap up, because as a rule, I don't really believe in it. But, to not have ANY veterans around(because they were trying like hell to trade Byrd and Soriano) could have been a bad thing. Reed evidently wants to get into coaching and if he was there to show Brett, Sappelt, Campana, or whoever else some of the stuff he's done to give them good habits or whatever, I'm OK with that. Being that it WAS going to be a shitty year anyway. If you bring up that we have DeJesus, you basically win. Or that Wood looked like [expletive] in ST, but Volstad looked great and we went with him. My flimsiest of flimsy excuses becomes "but DeJesus doesn't know Chicago that well" but I think his wife is from Chicago and even shoots that down. [expletive] it, I lose. But, for results sake, it may wind up netting us something we didn't have, so while dumb, it still could wind up being solid, in spite of it being dumb.
  15. davell
    because he's flukishly putting up good numbers? what if dave sappelt had put up his line (which was probably just about as likely going into the season) while a decade younger and making league minimum? But instead Sappelt has put up a line of .238/.295/324 in AAA. Which makes the Reed signing much easier to take. And if it brings us a lottery ticket type that we didn't have in our system previously, it makes it just fine. Because he hasn't blocked anyone, to this point, with Brett and Sappelt struggling. You can argue we should have signed a younger guy, instead of Reed, and I won't dispute it whatsoever. But, in the end, it hasn't hurt us at all and he may even bring us back something in return. I find it hard to criticize the signing, due to those things.
  16. davell
    Reed has wound up as a decent signing. He may bring back some sort of lottery ticket. Maybe an Abner Abreu type guy, like we got last year for Fukudome. I'd love to see if the Dodgers would take all 3 of Dempster/LaHair/Russell. It'd help us maximize the return, we wouldn't be getting a TON from them, even for all 3, so it'd leave them the ability to go add more, if they see fit. With Ethier going on the DL, they could play Lahair in RF, platoon him with Rivera for now and keep Loney at 1B, if they're really concerned with LaHair's defense. If his bat doesn't heat up, you use him off the bench once Ethier comes back. If it does, then he plays 1B for them. Don't think Zach Lee is a remote possibility, but Eovaldi and Gould for those 3 would be an extremely good haul for those 3 guys.
  17. davell
    The Dodgers got out on Soler at 25 mill. This was before WE had any clue who Puig even was. Doesn't mean other teams had heard he was going to become eligible though.
  18. davell
    If the Dodgers weren't even the high bidder, I'm taking their word for this, over BA's. When has NA actually seen the guy? This seems like scouts were really downplaying him, to give publications bad info and possibly help control his price. All we've got on this guy is his 19 year old season where he put up close to what Cespedes did as a 25 year old.
  19. davell
    A few tweets, one says if you see him on the right day, you can see him becoming Vlad. Another says Dodgers weren't even the highest bidders, but they've never seen him play in a game.
  20. davell
    Apparently. Seriously, is Puig even going to crack their Top 10? Badler said he's not in an average organization's top 10.
  21. davell
    Wow, so what are they gonna give Hamels, like 3 or 4 billion?
  22. davell
    The Dodgers have said they'll be looking to add a reliever as well. Elbert is their only lefty, so Russell makes quite a bit of sense for them.
  23. davell
    Callis said today if Candelario keeps this up, he's in the Cubs top 10. Too early for top 100, next year for that.
  24. davell
    Goldstein is in full troll mode tonight. He called Szczur a second division starter yesterday, now he's a 4th OF not ready for AA.
  25. davell
    i'm not going to lose any sleep if we don't get this guy. If the money isn't ridiculous, then sure. But the reports aren't glowing and if he gets 10 mill or more, it's another 40 man slot taken.
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